pralaya
/ˈpɹʌləjə/noun
pralaya is a noun meaning “destruction, apocalypse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-A-L-A-Y-A, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pralaya is pralayas.
What does pralaya mean?
noun
- 1
destruction, apocalypse
- 2
A period of cosmic inactivity, lasting 4.32 billion years.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pralaya?
- /ˈpɹʌləjə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pralaya
- pralayas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pralaya?
Pralaya appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does pralaya come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रलय (pralaya).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).